1. Teenager murdered for writing love letter to girl of higher caste – Times Online: “Prakash Louis, a sociologist based in Bihar, said ∑ “Caste-based atrocities are common here: rapes, murders, beatings. The privileged prey on the weak,” said Uday Kumar, a director of the Bihar-based Dalit Association for Social and Human Rights Awareness. Similar abuses are reported regularly across India. Alamelu, the leader of a group of Dalit women in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, said:”

2. Boy thrown in front of train for falling in love – India – The Times of India: “Lalita Devi alleged that cops had told her to settle the dispute ‘outside the police station’ when she, along with her son, went to them for help after the boy was tonsured and paraded around the market. She said the accused assaulted her and her son outside the police station and dragged them to a railway track. Despite her repeated pleas for her son’s life, the killers threw the boy in front of a train on the Gaya-Mughalsarai section.”

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